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Where do you all keep your important documents? (birth certs, car titles, etc)

SunnyD

SunnyD

Belgian Waffler
My current fire safe is getting a little bit too small as our life gets bigger. I'm trying to decide between:

A) A bigger fire safe
B) A (hidden) wall safe
C) A safe deposit box (offsite)

Actually, a better question would be - since obviously some documents should probably be kept offsite as a "backup plan" in addition to onsite - which documents would you keep where?
 
Normally, "important documents" are kept in a safe deposit box...but since we moved, they're all in a file cabinet...in a storage locker.
 
These are good questions posted by the OP and how many of us I wonder really do the things we "should" in this regard.

BC's, Passports, Gun Registrations (probably a few other things that escape me at the moment) I keep in a small fireproof safe. But I don't know how many times I have thought of moving that stuff and more to a safe deposit box.

I've also thought of at the least taking pictures of everything in the entire house (video might be better?) in case of fire. That would of course need to be in a fireproof safe or better yet offsite in a SD box.

The complexities of the modern age...
 
Ours are in an off-site fireproof floor safe.

We have copies in a file cabinet at home. I keep saying I should scan them and put them in my Dropbox account.

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
Ours are in an off-site fireproof floor safe.

We have copies in a file cabinet at home. I keep saying I should scan them and put them in my Dropbox account.

MotionMan
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I know this is going to become a rather popular suggestion here soon enough given the ubiquity of it all, but there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL I'm going to put any documents like that in any sort of cloud storage medium, just waiting to be hacked.

Scan and store a local copy on a USB drive in a local safe while the physical copies are in a safe deposit box, sure. Cloud storage? Fuck no.
 
SunnyD said:
I know this is going to become a rather popular suggestion here soon enough given the ubiquity of it all, but there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL I'm going to put any documents like that in any sort of cloud storage medium, just waiting to be hacked.

Scan and store a local copy on a USB drive in a local safe while the physical copies are in a safe deposit box, sure. Cloud storage? Fuck no.
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I would secure them first, of course.

MotionMan
 
SunnyD said:
I know this is going to become a rather popular suggestion here soon enough given the ubiquity of it all, but there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL I'm going to put any documents like that in any sort of cloud storage medium, just waiting to be hacked.

Scan and store a local copy on a USB drive in a local safe while the physical copies are in a safe deposit box, sure. Cloud storage? Fuck no.
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Sounds like you just figured out your own solution.

I should probably stop leaving those things hanging out in different places in my apartment.
 
SunnyD said:
I know this is going to become a rather popular suggestion here soon enough given the ubiquity of it all, but there is absolutely NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL I'm going to put any documents like that in any sort of cloud storage medium, just waiting to be hacked.

Scan and store a local copy on a USB drive in a local safe while the physical copies are in a safe deposit box, sure. Cloud storage? Fuck no.
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SpiderOak has encrypted storage, but to be sure, sensitive documents should also be encrypted by the user before uploading. I trust encryption more than physical security.
 
lxskllr said:
SpiderOak has encrypted storage, but to be sure, sensitive documents should also be encrypted by the user before uploading. I trust encryption more than physical security.
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I work with encryption on a daily basis. I'd rather have a handful of physical copies never made digital in the first place than every have anything even encrypted in digital form. Once it's online, it's only a matter of time before it's "public", and no longer encrypted.
 
SunnyD said:
I work with encryption on a daily basis. I'd rather have a handful of physical copies never made digital in the first place than every have anything even encrypted in digital form. Once it's online, it's only a matter of time before it's "public", and no longer encrypted.
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You could just store everything in a tin foil hat.

MotionMan
 
Safe Deposit. If you do enough business with your bank (READ : "Get raped enough"), they are usually free.

EDIT: I can't think of any documents that I would need outside of regular business hours. I guess if I needed to sell one of our cars in a pinch, but that's not realistic.
 
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Humpy said:
I throw all that shit away.

I don't need hard copies of stuff that the state keeps on file.
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I used to be like that until I needed a birth certificate. 2-months later... Also if anyone ever asks you for previous year's tax documents the IRS gets really pissy when you tell them you need copies because you don't have the 7 years you are supposed to have saved.
 
TwiceOver said:
I used to be like that until I needed a birth certificate. 2-months later... Also if anyone ever asks you for previous year's tax documents the IRS gets really pissy when you tell them you need copies because you don't have the 7 years you are supposed to have saved.
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Which is ironic, since it's the IRS and all.
 
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